• All About Juno
  • Bad Girl: The Power of the Lilith Archetype
  • Charts for Articles in past issues of ECLIPSE
  • Excerpt from ‘The Moon & You: Interpreting the Moon in the Natal Chart’
  • How Do We Reconcile Placidus with Whole Sign, and Still Love Ourselves in the Morning?
  • On Eclipses
  • Services
  • Terms of Use
  • Zeus, or, What a Man Gotta Do

Julie Demboski's ASTROLOGY

~ Addressing the Individual Experience Within the Universal Truth

Julie Demboski's ASTROLOGY

Tag Archives: Neptune Direct

The Personal Politics of Neptune Direct 4 December 2022

Featured

Posted by juliedemboski in astrology, current events in the sky, Neptune, Retrogrades + Directions

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

astrology, Neptune Direct, The Astro Essence

Shiny surfaces, figurative and even literal, will help you see what you can’t observe directly.
‘Reflection in the Mirror’ By Grigory Soroka c1850 {{PD}}

So Neptune has stationed at 22 Pisces and will officially begin apparent forward motion at 4:16 PM of the 4th–and it does so with the Moon just leaving semi-sextile and Venus square. It looks like a moment of peak emotional confusion: What or who do I love? What’s happening with my money? Am I victim of a delusion? Are the relationships or financial circumstances I thought reliable just an illusion? Is my idea or creation worth anything? Am I loved? Am I even visible? They’re the kind of nagging doubts that, even as we ask ourselves the question, we know we won’t have access to a useful answer. Such is the mystery Neptune swathes things, circumstances, and feelings with. Reassure yourself that coming head-first at such questions right now only invites frustrations; instead, let’s examine what else is going on at that point. We’ll use other conditions to read obliquely what we can’t see directly, like holding a shiny surface out to see around a corner: our view may be a little distorted, incomplete, or blurry, but we’ll get the gist–and that’s what’s important.

Jupiter’s poised to enter the 29th degree of Pisces, and Sedna’s already there. These define the most blatant stressors we’ll be under: the social order may pressure, the facts may unsettle our viewpoint or define our options, and it’s impossible to vet these against instincts, as what we need either lies in our ‘blind spot’ (those matters where we are unable to see one or more fundamental truths), or, when we turn to that inner knowing, we receive dead air instead of enlightenment. This can be especially true if we’re concerned with ways in which we’ve tried to expand our creative output or to put our beliefs into action–and considering the state of Neptune, what we know is that we won’t know! Not yet.

We also see the Black Moon Lilith point conjoined Pallas in Cancer, opposed Pluto in Capricorn, with Eris and Zeus filling in a Cardinal Grand Cross. No wonder we feel we must do something! It feels important, dangerous (both in the doing and the not doing), presenting a landscape littered with hazards (egos, angry others, ambitious or avaricious forces, ‘the Establishment’, not to mention the tension in confronting the sheer power, human and natural, that exists all around us). But there’s a saving grace in Pallas, if we are willing to allow those things we’ve denied, avoided, ignored, or been enraged over to inform our choices. It’s in acknowledging and facing those very things we’d like to forget that we find the wisdom to triumph, the sharp and just sword with which to fight.

The Sun will be trine Chiron at this point, making us far too aware of our own wounds and vulnerability–but remember, those items appear bigger than they actually are right now, and if we shift our vision, just a bit, we can change the focus to our most unique talents. These may have been undervalued of late or put to the side as irrelevant or impractical. Now’s the time to dust them off and apply them, for best results (check your natal Chiron placement for clues as to the nature and uses of your personal Chirotic treasure).

We’ll also have Mercury square Ceres, trine Eris, and quincunx Pallas-BML. Again, there might be a lot of pronouncements, orders given, and attempts to prove personal worth and right through exercising personal power. Silence, or at least a refusal to tangle with those who seem to want a fight, might be our best course. Beware the overly assertive, who claim a ‘natural’ right to tell you what to do–and take care not to act out that role yourself.

And have a wonderful weekend!

Rate this:

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Print
  • LinkedIn

Like this:

Like Loading...

Trends and Transits: late November 2021 Under the Influence

22 Monday Nov 2021

Posted by juliedemboski in astrology, current events in the sky, future events in the sky, Retrogrades + Directions, Saturn in Aquarius

≈ 4 Comments

Tags

astrology, Neptune Direct, The Astro Essence

Guido Reni
Drinking Bacchus
c1623 {{PD}}

So what does it mean for the Sun to enter Sagittarius? A dropping away of suspicions, for one. The Jupiter-ruled Sun knows what it knows, and isn’t afraid to broadcast it. We want to be out-and-about, want to travel, want to explore what’s foreign to us, want to learn about new things, want to know what’s wise, what’s practical (these latter as the Sun through Sag squares Pallas in Pisces by sign–we want to know what difficulties we’ll face, especially those unseen or spiritual snags that come to our attention). Ruler Jupiter is in Aquarius, semi-sextile Pluto and sextile Eris, pulling away from a trine to Zeus= we move away from focus on ambition and desire and toward high-minded inquiry, meant to get at the Truth, but if there’s any enmity in the atmosphere, even our most innocent or well-meant probing brings discord. Remember that Eris doesn’t bring disharmony, she reveals it; a clash was already present, just not yet expressed. She helps us get to the Truth, though her methodology may be a little unpleasant. She responds to the unspoken; it’s our response that shows our own motivations and thoughts. Keep that in mind, especially if you’re tempted to point the finger–that inclination indicates we have a bit of our own buried agenda yet to explore and express.

Saturn and Chiron are neatly sextile right now, as are Venus and Mars. These pairings offer an ease of expression, or rather an expressive ‘way out, for some of the energies: Venus is uncomfortable in Capricorn, finding the beauty in order but also chafing against the responsibility that is inherent to the sign; Mars in Scorpio may feel as if every action and choice is somehow underhanded, even when it’s not–the shift of the Sun to Sag may help clear this up–so that everyone with a conscience may feel weighed down by guilt, shame, or regret that is more existential than personal–so the sooner we realize that, the more free we’ll be; Saturn in Aquarius has been struggling to institute modernization in all forms within the reality picture, and this may be the chance, in contacting Chiron in Pisces, to connect to a higher reality, an ideal to guide those real-world efforts. That can work, if we’re able to cut through the fog that emanates from our own hurt and misperception.

We should note the direction of Neptune on December 1st. It’s been stationary on the 20th degree of Pisces since mid-October, and will remain stationary direct on that degree until mid-January 2022. It may have been feeling like progress on the dream just isn’t possible, and that feeling will continue for awhile–but that doesn’t mean you should stop your efforts to bring it into reality. The sense that you’re not moving forward in the creative realm, with implementing ideals, with making the magic happen, is (oh Neptune!) an illusion. Everything you’ve been doing has been contributing to realizing that Neptunian dream, you just can’t see its effectiveness, yet. Yes, for a few of us, the direction will reveal (eventually) how and where we’ve been fooling ourselves, but deception is only possible when it falls on ground fertile for misbelief–otherwise, that attempt to mislead us shrivels and dies.

File away for future consideration the fact that Venus will retrograde on December 19th. This happens late in Capricorn, just after she’s conjoined Pluto, and she’ll still be ‘under the influence’. This may bring a very trying time in relationships and/ or finances–just know that it will not only pass, any destructive potentials will, if indulged in, bring permanent and irrevocable change–so best to see that the strife will pass, that the negatives shouldn’t be acted upon (Mars will be in Sagittarius by then, so rarin’ to get out or lash out), and that exercising Capricornian Self-discipline is the best thing you can do to keep Love in your life.

Right now we’re in what I like to refer to as the valley between eclipses. It’s a period of tension–you can almost feel the air vibrating–and if we resist it, or try to pin down the meaning behind what’s happening, we’ll become exhausted. Just let things be, let them develop, without demanding answers (see Mars, above, for the likely result of pushing too hard). If you haven’t already, or need a refresher, see my take on the recent Lunar eclipse here. All orders for my books through Dog & Sunflower Press will be fulfilled on 30 November. Thank you, everyone!

Rate this:

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Print
  • LinkedIn

Like this:

Like Loading...

A Good Day To . . . 27-28 November 2019

26 Tuesday Nov 2019

Posted by juliedemboski in astrology, current events in the sky, forecast, Retrogrades + Directions

≈ Comments Off on A Good Day To . . . 27-28 November 2019

Tags

astrology, Good Day To . . ., Neptune Direct, The Astro Essence

‘The Fog Horn’ By Winslow Homer 1883 {{PD}}

The 27th is a Good Day To . . . get a gander at Neptune as it stations direct at 15 Pisces 55, as it does so while sextiling Vesta, while Vesta is opposed by Mercury (with Mercury’s trine to Neptune perfecting tomorrow, the 28th). Direction may dispel some of the murk around our priorities and those things we honor, and the fog should lift for the individual around at least some of the matters of the natal House where the direction occurs. No longer will we wonder if we’re doing the ‘right’ thing–though this might not coalesce into coherent thoughts immediately, or be communicated to or from others as soon as it’s realized–and by the 28th we either immerse our thinking in a universe of creative imagination, or we are mired in (or fed a load of) delusion, misdirection, or outright lies. It might not be easy to tell the difference, at first, but if we become still and listen, we’ll know. It’s only when there’s too much psychic noise that we are prone to accept what we’d do better to reject.

The 28th also sees Moon, Venus, and Ceres pile up early in Capricorn trine Uranus in Taurus. This expresses the heart of the day, offering a down-to-Earth concoction of sensitivity, Love, companionship, and expression of personal authority, delivered in surprising (and maybe strikingly sentimental) ways. Modern comforts celebrate traditions–what better indicator for a lovely Thanksgiving Day (in the US)? Be aware, though, that the unexpected is likely to spring directly from what’s been enraging us and denied, or from what we’ve been trying to ignore–so if possible clear up those neglected feelings and reactions before any significant gathering or interaction. And one other warning: words hold a lot of creative power today, and can stimulate the imagination, so take care that those words don’t go too far, or muddy otherwise clear, positive emotional waters (Mercury sesq Chiron).

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

{{PD}}

Happy Thanksgiving to All my US Readers, and happy Wednesday/ Thursday to Everyone else!

Rate this:

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Print
  • LinkedIn

Like this:

Like Loading...

A Good Day To . . . 8 November 2019

07 Thursday Nov 2019

Posted by juliedemboski in astrology, current events in the sky, forecast, Neptune, Retrogrades + Directions

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

astrology, Good Day To . . ., Neptune Direct, The Astro Essence

By Heinrich Vogeler – Künstlerkolonie Worpswede. 2011, ISBN 978-3-7913-4523-9, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23553258

The 8th is a good day to see dreams come true–really! Just like that. But then, so can nightmares. Mobilize energy to support Love (of yourself, as well as others), Beauty, to facilitate sharing assets (when that’s truly an expression of Love), to making Art, and to focusing on ideals. That’s the key to manifesting something wonderful, positive, something that embodies an ideal and highly admirable facet of the Self. Artist, Dreamer, Builder, Hard Worker, Realist, Creator–all are favored, but most especially successful when they bring forward wisdom, skills, and good sense honed in the past and applied to today. Can be a big, and highly productive, day.

Alert! We should be aware that Neptune is slated to go direct just before American Thanksgiving, on the 27th. Expect everyone to be operating in their own bubble that is more-or-less (maybe much, much less) connected to reality. Illusions can be stripped away, and true dreams and goals can become apparent, over the course of the first few days following direction. Welcome it as a chance to make contact at an authentic level, and as an opportunity to accept others as they are, rather than as we wish they were.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

Rate this:

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Print
  • LinkedIn

Like this:

Like Loading...

Blog Stats

  • 2,042,229 hits

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Pages

  • All About Juno
  • Bad Girl: The Power of the Lilith Archetype
  • Charts for Articles in past issues of ECLIPSE
  • Excerpt from ‘The Moon & You: Interpreting the Moon in the Natal Chart’
  • How Do We Reconcile Placidus with Whole Sign, and Still Love Ourselves in the Morning?
  • On Eclipses
  • Services
  • Terms of Use
  • Zeus, or, What a Man Gotta Do

Donate

Recent Comments

Melanie Boston on Full Moon in Sagittarius June…
Stephen Clifton on Full Moon in Sagittarius June…
Katia on Mercury Retrograde 21 April 20…
Nancy Kossman on A Note Or Two For You
Katia on Mercury Retrograde 21 April 20…

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 5,098 other subscribers

Top Posts & Pages

  • Full Moon in Sagittarius June 2023: A Lonely Lunar Light
  • Receptivity and Desire: The Great Attractors in the Natal Chart Venus, Chiron, and the Moon
  • What You're Asking: 12th House Suns, Juno/ Venus Synastry, and, Are Scorpio Moons Misanthropic?
  • Zeus, or, What a Man Gotta Do
  • Focus On: Sedna
Follow Julie Demboski's ASTROLOGY on WordPress.com

Search

Asteroids

  • CHIRON IN THE NATAL CHART
  • Hekate by Leah Whitehorse
  • HEKATE IN THE NATAL CHART: A LITTLE BACKGROUND + AN EXAMPLE
  • JUNO IN THE NATAL CHART
  • Serennu
  • THE ASTROLOGY OF INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP
  • We Are All Vessels: VESTA IN THE NATAL CHART

Astro Books, Interviews, & Merchandise

  • CHIRON IN THE NATAL CHART
  • Dog and Sunflower Press
  • Jo Tracey's Interview with me
  • JUNO IN THE NATAL CHART
  • THE ASTROLOGY OF INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP
  • We Are All Vessels: VESTA IN THE NATAL CHART

Astrological Associations

  • Washington State Astrological Association

Astrology Aggregators and Group Sites

  • Astrology Blog List
  • Astrology Blogger
  • Astrology Media Press
  • Astrology Study
  • Astropro Society
  • Horoskoop
  • Humandala
  • Startsiden

Astrology Blogroll and Sites of Interest

  • A Tiny Universe
  • All My Minds
  • Anthony Louis Astrology and Tarot Blog
  • Astro Inquiry
  • Astroair Astrology
  • Astrolearn
  • Astrology Explored
  • Astrology Questions and Answers
  • AstroQueer
  • Been There, Done That
  • Being My Own Self
  • Big Sky Astrology
  • Boho Astro
  • Caroline Myss
  • Celestial Space Astrology Blog
  • Chirotic Journal
  • Cosmic Life Coach
  • Erin Sullivan
  • irOk Woo
  • Jo Tracey's Interview with me
  • Joanne Madeline Moore
  • Jude Cowell Astology
  • Jude's Tapestry
  • Jude's Threshold
  • Karmic Tools
  • Kim Fairminer
  • Libra Seeking Balance
  • Lua Astrology: Navigation by the Stars
  • Madameastres
  • My Astrology Charts
  • Neptune and the Oak
  • Neptune's Silver Screen
  • Ouranitsa
  • Peter Stockinger's Traditional Astrology Weblog
  • Serennu's blog
  • Shifting Realities
  • Starcana
  • Stars of Wonder
  • Stars Over Washington
  • SunnyCat Astrology
  • The Oculus Divinorum Archives
  • The Silent Watchers
  • Tracy's Astro Salon
  • True Crime & Astrology
  • Two Hours You'll Never Get Back
  • Venus in the Fifth

Astrology on a Daily or Weekly Basis

  • Being My Own Self
  • Chirotic Journal
  • Cosmic Life Coach
  • Fragrantica
  • Lua Astrology: Navigation by the Stars
  • Lunar Phases and Energy Shifts by Verena Heinrich
  • Tracy's Astro Salon

Astrology Resources

  • A Tiny Universe
  • Astro Blogging
  • Astrodienst
  • Astrolabe
  • Astrolearn
  • Astrology Book Club
  • Astrology Center of America
  • Astrology Dating
  • Astrology News Service
  • Astrology Software
  • AstroWiki
  • CHIRON IN THE NATAL CHART
  • Fixed Stars at Astrology on the Web
  • JUNO IN THE NATAL CHART
  • My Astrology Charts
  • Peter Stockinger's Traditional Astrology Weblog
  • Sabian Symbols at Cafe Astrology
  • Serennu
  • Spiral Spectrum
  • THE ASTROLOGY OF INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP
  • Time Zone Converter
  • Tracy's Astro Salon
  • We Are All Vessels: VESTA IN THE NATAL CHART

Astronomy Resources

  • Astrology Software
  • Google Sky
  • Spiral Spectrum
  • Stargazers (Map Site of the Sky–NASA)
  • The Naked Eye Planets
  • The Nine Planets
  • Time and Date
  • Time Zone Converter

At 'Been There, Done That'

  • A Difficult Dance: Lilith and Chiron

Downloads, Podcasts, Video, and Radio

  • Karmic Tools

Forums

  • Astroknowlogy

Horary Astrology

  • Peter Stockinger's Traditional Astrology Weblog

Instruction, Workshops and Seminars

  • Rae Indigo

Living Well, Art, and Conversation

  • 1481hyperion
  • Actavesta Baby
  • Adventures in Green from the Emerald City
  • Alice Neal Snaps
  • Alice's Adventures in Knittingland
  • An Upturned Soul
  • Art Talk
  • Been There, Done That
  • Beth Turnage
  • Cancer Killing Recipe
  • Capricorn One Vintage Blog
  • Capricorn One Vintage Shop
  • Cosmic Persona Designs
  • Dreamy Fish
  • Esscentual Alchemy
  • First Olympian Beard Oil
  • Fragrantica
  • Handmade Days
  • Jo Tracey's Interview with me
  • Jude Cowell Art
  • Jude Cowell at Fine Art America
  • Jude Cowell at Red Bubble
  • Jude's Tapestry
  • Jude's Threshold
  • Karen's Whimsy
  • Kelley's Custom Creams
  • Lim's Limericks
  • Neptune's Silver Screen
  • Rae Indigo
  • Samantha Demboski, Artist at Red Bubble
  • Secret Moon Art
  • Shannon Food
  • Silent Paradox
  • Spiral Spectrum
  • Swamp Creek Farm
  • The Hungry Writer
  • These Other Realms
  • Two Hours You'll Never Get Back
  • Woolly Mammoth Chronicles
  • WordAds
  • WordPress.com
  • WordPress.org

Magical Stuffs

  • Esscentual Alchemy
  • Ethereal Enchantments
  • First Olympian Beard Oil
  • Jude Cowell at Fine Art America
  • Kelley's Custom Creams

On Hiatus, It Seems

  • 8th House Stellium
  • Artful Journey
  • Astro 4 Business
  • Astrocelebrities
  • Astrology Expressed
  • Astrology Mundo
  • Astrology's Wisdom
  • Decide for Yourself
  • Distracted Astrologer
  • Dreamscopes
  • Ellen Longo
  • Mayan Astrology
  • Mercury Retrograde
  • Mystic Skye
  • Starry Night Astrology
  • The Know It All Astrologer
  • The Volcanic Muses
  • What The Astral Fog

On the Astro Horizon

  • My Juno series

Tarot

  • irOk Woo
  • Starcana
  • The Feral Tarot
  • Venus is Ascending

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • Julie Demboski's ASTROLOGY
    • Join 1,310 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Julie Demboski's ASTROLOGY
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d bloggers like this: